Structure, Verses, Agency Books

The Adman in the Parlor: Magazines and the Gendering of Consumer Culture, 1880s to 1910s

Garvey, Ellen Gruber · 1996

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Oxford University Press, 1996. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear' previous owner's penned note at...

Conceiving the New World Order: The Global Politics of Reproduction

Ginsburg, Faye D. and Rayna Rapp, eds. · 1995

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1995. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. From the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, scholar, activist and teacher, Laura Tamakoshi, who has contributed seminal works and activis...

Work Engendered: Toward a New History of American Labor

Baron, Ava, ed. · 1991

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Ithaca, New York, Cornell University Press, 1991. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Ava Baron has edited a fine accounting of U.S. social history through the lens of Labor and Capital, with contributions by her, and by Dolores Janiewski, Mary H. Blewett, Eilee...

Challenging the State: The Sandline Affair in Papua New Guinea

Dinnen, Sinclair, Ron May and Anthony J. Regan, eds. · 1997

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Canberra, Australia, National Centre for Development Studies, RSPAS, 1997. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First Edition, an exemplar of the Pacific Policy Paper No. 30, about the Sandline Affair in Bougainville, with chapters by each of the editors, collect...

A Hawaiian Nation I: Man, Gods, and Nature

Michael Kioni Dudley · 1990

$14.40 (€13.06 | £10.90 | ¥2,299)

Honolulu, Hawaii, Na Kane O Ka Malo Press, 1990. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A fine ethnography of Hawaiian thought, philosophy, culture, nature and ethnomedicine. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals,...

A Voyager out: The Life of Mary Kingsley

Frank, Katherine · 2005

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

London, Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2005. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy of a First Edition Thus (in paperback), with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for previous sticker at final free endpaper, showing o...

Land Echoes

Winduo, Steven Edmund · 2014

$22.40 (€20.32 | £16.96 | ¥3,577)

Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, University of Papua New Guinea Press, 2014. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the per...

The Island of Menstruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea

Hogbin, Ian · 1970

$11.20 (€10.16 | £8.48 | ¥1,788)

Prospect Heights, Illinois, Waveland Press, 1970. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, still tightly bound softcover copy, minor to moderate wear of covers and text-block, but with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy...

Blood Is Their Argument: Warfare Among the Mae Enga Tribesmen of the New Guinea Highlands

Meggitt, Mervyn · 1977

$9.60 (€8.71 | £7.27 | ¥1,533)

Palo Alto, California, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1977. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. My Ph.D. dissertation supervisor's classic meditation on political struggles over land and "blood" in Enga Province. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled ti...

The Ngatik Massacre: History and Identity on a Micronesian Atoll

Poyer, Lin · 1993

$12.80 (€11.61 | £9.69 | ¥2,044)

Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Books, 1993. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. From the personal library of a noted Papua New Guinea-based researcher, scholar, activist and teacher, Laura Tamakoshi, who has contributed seminal works and activism on a number of f...

The Future of Indigenous Museums Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific

Stanley, Nick, ed. · 2008

$24.80 (€22.50 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

New York, Berghahn Books, 2008. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals but for previous owner's ink-stamp at title page, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. From the per...

Iconographia Scotica. Or Portraits of Illustrious Persons of Scotland, Engraved from the Most Authentic Paintings, &C

Smith, John · 1798

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Cornhill, London, England, Printed for Robert Wilkinson, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. The title page continues, "with their lives compiled from the works of the best informed and modern writers extant, manuscript as well as printed, containing man...

Leonard Baskin

Lebrun, Rico et al. · 1962

$140.00 (€127.02 | £105.97 | ¥22,356)

Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 1962. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. SIGNED by the master printmaker, Leonard Baskin, at the half-title, "For Agnes, a memorable opening. Leonard. 0. 12. 1962." Illustrated wraps, protected in a stiff Mylar j...

Bigarrures; or the Pleasant and Witlesse and Simple Speeches of the Lord Gaulard of Burgundy from a Manuscript Circa 1660

Tabourot, Estienne · 1884

$140.00 (€127.02 | £105.97 | ¥22,356)

Glasgow, Scotland, Printed for Private Circulation by Thomas Bird Mosher , 1884. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. The title is an odd one, "BIGARURES or The Pleasant and Witlesse and Simple Speeches of the Lord Gaulard of Burgundy, From a manuscript Circa 166...

Dictionnaire Comique, Satyrique, Critique, Burlesque, Libre Et Proverbial

Leroux, P.J. · 1786

$132.00 (€119.76 | £99.91 | ¥21,079)

Paris, France, Pamplelune, 1786. Nouvelle Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. The title continues, "avec une explication tres-fidell de toutes les manieres de parler burlesques, comiques, libres, satyriques, critiques & proverbiales, qui peuven s rencontrer dans les m...

More Limehouse Nights

Burke, Thomas · 1921

$17.60 (€15.97 | £13.32 | ¥2,810)

New York, George H. Doran Company, 1921. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. First U.S. Edition, a perfectly serviceable copy in hardcover format, orange cloth over boards, black and red illustration and lettering to front cover and spine; nothing fancy, but com...

Cucaro

Hopkins, Robert E. · 1969

$44.00 (€39.92 | £33.30 | ¥7,026)

New York, Sentinel Books, 1969. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. An artist monograph devoted to Pascal Cucaro, published in New York by Sentinel Books, 1969. 64 pp. 23 cm. high by 15 ½ cm. wide, bound attractively in illustrated card covers. Frot panel features...

Kama Kala: Some Notes on the Philosophical Basis of Hindu Erotic Sculpture

Anand, Mulk Raj · 1958

$30.40 (€27.58 | £23.01 | ¥4,854)

Geneve, Switzerland, Nagel Publishing, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Big, tall hardcover format, black cloth over boards, sharp and distinct lettering to front cover and spine, slight rearward cock thereto, clean, bright, tightly bound interior but...

Derriere le Miroir, No. 53-54, Mars, Avril, 1953

Maeght, Aimee, editor · 1953

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Paris, Maeght Editeur, 1953. Second Edition. Softcover. Size: Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Attractive, evocative exemplar in softcover format, with lightly furled upper tips, and clean internals, showing slight shelf- and edge-wear, slight soiling to edges. Published in Second ...

Straw Hat Charlie: Seventy Years in the Saddle

Coutant, Martha Wood · 1987

$36.00 (€32.66 | £27.25 | ¥5,749)

Sierra Madre, California, Self-published, printed for her by Kerr Printing Company., 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. DOUBLE-SIGNED at title page by both "Straw Hat 'Charlie'" himself and "For Jack Butler, Martha Wood Coutant." Glossy pictorial wraps,...